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3RD UPDATE with lawsuit filed: Playboy senior White House correspondent and CNN contributor Brian Karem filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Donald Trump and White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham over the suspension of his White House “hard pass” credential last week. The filing (read it here) in the…

The former love affair between President Donald Trump and Fox News may be on the rocks. At least, for some of its hosts. Speaking to a gaggle of reporters today, President Trump took a question about a new Fox poll that showed him behind several Democrat contenders for the 2020 presidential election. That set him…

The National Football League may believe it has bought peace in our time by aligning with rap mogul Jay-Z and his Roc Nation for various social justice initiatives and entertainment. But the shadow of Colin Kaepernick still looms over the league, and some players are listening to his siren calls for continued…

Fresh off being barred from Israel and then turning down a humanitarian visit to the West Bank, Rep. Rashida Tlaib has now called for a boycott of HBO’s Bill Maher, who has termed her Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions efforts a “bullshit purity test.” Tlaib tweeted that she was tired of folks like Maher "discrediting…

President Donald Trump lashed out this morning against his old nemesis, the “failing New York Times,” accusing it in his Sunday Twitter stream of planning a “Racism Witch Hunt” in its ongoing coverage. "The failing New York Times, in one of the most devastating portrayals of bad journalism in history, got caught by a…

Chef Mario Batali no longer holds a stake in Italian marketplace Eataly, a venue he once heavily promoted. Chris Giglio, a spokesman for Eataly USA, told The Associated Press on Friday that the company has purchased Batali's minority interest. Batali had no direct involvement with Eataly since December 2017, Giglio…

ESPN’s loss is the Philadelphia Eagles gain, as veteran quarterback Josh McCown has opted to leave his position as an analyst with the sports network to return to football. McCown retired in the off-season after serving as a mentor last year to New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold. He will fill the Eagles need for a…

Veteran WVUE-TV news reporter and anchor Nancy Parker was killed in a small plane crash this afternoon at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans. She was 53. Parker and the as-yet unidentified pilot of the small plane died in the crash, but officials couldn’t say yet what caused the accident. Her death was confirmed by the…

I thought I'd figured out Hollywood's prevailing attitude toward firearms. Oscar winner John Legend seemed to sum it up at an appearance in Dayton this week when he said: "The NRA doesn't represent America," and "we're tired of bigotry and hate turning lethal because of easy access to guns." Then I saw the trailer for…

President Donald Trump emerged from a rare day of Twitter silence late this afternoon, renewing his frequent war on three of his big MSNBC critics in “Little” Donny Deutsch, Joe Scarborough and “his very angry Psycho wife,” (aka Mika Brzezinski). Trump reminisced about his days on NBC’s The Apprentice, recalling how…

President Donald Trump was evidently watching Anthony Scaramucci’s most recent TV appearance. Scaramucci appeared on MSNBC on Thursday to opine that Trump “didn’t do well” on his trips to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas in the wake of the mass shootings in those cities. He described the visits as a “catastrophe.” “He…

Pity the poor promotional gurus at the New York Times Company. Just as they were wrapping themselves around a kinder, gentler digital subscription pitch — keyed to the notion that reading The Times can feed civil conversations among those who disagree — a Twitter mob descended on a headline that wasn't sufficiently…